The Observer

‘It would be easy to look at Irsay’s 25-year mission as an exercise in kleptomania.’ @XAMGreenwood watches billionaire Jim Irsay’s astonishing archive of artefacts – from Beatles memorabilia to Kerouac’s On the Road scroll – go to auction bit.ly/4uvIMgf

The Dean: Berlin’s new bolthole bit.ly/3PnUoly

'Being without a phone is alienating, but you experience the world in harsh real time as if anew,' says @olivia_ovenden As more users purposefully take time away from their devices, it’s unsurprising that fiction is reflecting that desire to break away from technology bit.ly/4spJiew

Why Rachel Reid wrote Heated Rivalry Rachel Reid’s queer ice hockey romance series #HeatedRivalry is an erotic power play. She explains why it has started conversations that are long overdue bit.ly/4bx4nMJ

The Other Bennet Sister reimagines Austen – again bit.ly/4smTEvt

Why I wrote Heated Rivalry bit.ly/4uD1jaE

Design and Homes Editor, Observer Magazine bit.ly/4bmczAG

Demand for jabs outstrips supply as fear of meningitis outbreak spreads bit.ly/4s2PVTb

Ready to fly again: Molly Caudery is on the up as she eyes LA 2028 bit.ly/4lCUD8m

Mikel Arteta’s biggest achievement is making Arsenal whole again bit.ly/40J1SlC

Boxing is like a mating dance between two birds bit.ly/4sVpO13

Afcon chaos just latest blot on world football record – but the top flight is no better bit.ly/4uO4kVR

The green light: Nigel Slater’s recipes for the first shoots of spring bit.ly/47yaL5t

Want to tell a story? Then ditch the phone, writes @olivia_ovenden Broken mobiles have become a cinematic trope but disconnecting needn’t be dramatic bit.ly/4spJiew

London Marathon: Dreams of pace, PBs and three magical digits: 26.2 @martinlove166 has run 41 marathons and counting – there are some numbers etched into this runner’s mind ahead of @LondonMarathon bit.ly/4bnQBNH

'My daughter learned to say, “Mummy’s back hurts.” And all the time, I couldn’t escape the vague sense that this was all my fault. Instead of bouncing back, I had broken,' writes @laurenbravo The writer chronicles how she adapted to life with chronic back pain - one chore at a time bit.ly/4lD3RkV

'Her art is an extraordinary expression of the power of the imagination and the will to find meaning' Lily Isaacs reviews a new biography of Yoko Ono’s shadowed life bit.ly/4uBs27x

Melissa Hamilton: ‘Timothée Chalamet should check himself before making disrespectful comments’ The ballerina @hmelissa84 speaks to @tara_dwmd on pursuing her dream, meeting Harry Styles and dancing Mary Vetsera in Mayerling bit.ly/413Y7rf

Saturday Night Live UK launches this weekend. It could send dozens of comedy careers into the stratosphere It may also end up being an expensive, failed experiment, writes Stephen Armstrong for the Sensemaker bit.ly/4sVxAbh

When a journalist reported on a missile strike on an Israeli forest, he was inundated by messages accusing him of an ‘inaccurate report’ causing ‘a chain of errors’. Then, he realised he was at the centre of a gambling war on Polymarket, @IsabelColes reports bit.ly/3Pl2xHp